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Mirror ...Mirror
by Belinda Baker → (All Poetry by Belinda Baker)
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This is a poem about bulimia


Mirror…Mirror

Reflecting upon your image
Remembering you as a baby
Chipmunk cheeks, bluest eyes
A lick from you, well maybe

Reflecting upon your image
A girl on her first date
Fixing…. fixing
Her hair she does hate

Reflecting upon your image
You are changing in size
Smaller each day
Unhappiness in those eyes

Reflecting upon your image
You are screaming at me
“I wish I could just disappear”
“Why can’t they let me be?”

Reflecting upon your image
Eyes raging mad
“I hate me, I am fat”
You are so sad

Reflecting upon your image
This girl I can’t seem to find
Has turned into a skeleton
Screaming, “I’m out of my mind”

Reflecting upon your image
She’s crying out with pain
Someone please help her
This isn’t a game

Reflecting upon your image
I can’t help you
Even though I know



All your secrets too

Reflecting upon your image
I saw you with the blade
Holding it to your wrists
You slowly begin to fade

Reflecting upon your image
I don’t see you anymore
You tore me off the wall
Threw me on the floor

No more reflecting
No more you and I
Bulimic body left
On the floor to die

Finally I’m picked up
But at what cost?
Reflecting back at me
A girl almost lost

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 Reviews of "Mirror ...Mirror"
Reviewed by Paul Berube
Reviewed on January 11, 2008
Belinda,

This is so sad. I think so much of these diseases have to do with peer worship. If only we could see the good that others see in us our shortcomings wouldn't matter that much. People tend to set goals for themselves and if they don't achieve them they are devastated. They don't realize that half a goal is better than none at all. When I read poems/stories such as yours I often think of Karen Carpenter. A young girl with a golden voice who died so young because she wasn't satisfied with her weight. Lost to this dreaded disease. What a waste of life. Sorry to bend your ear, please forgive my ramblings but your poem set me off. Peace, Love and Blessings to You and Yours Always, Paul.

Reviewed by shiloh slaughter
Reviewed on January 10, 2008
this would be a better lyric for a song than a poem. it is quite sing songy.


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